Upgrading to Edgy Eft

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 21:23 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> On a plain users list, people shouldn't be encouraged
> to use a bleeding edge distribution. Such a distribution is (likely)
> to
> be too unstable for normal users. 

Right on, especially since Dapper is the LTS distro, Edgy will be more
experimental (as the code name indicates) and will likely only converge
on a new LTS after 2 or 3 releases. 

Mark Shuttleworth [1]: 'An Eft is a youthful newt, going through its
first exploration of the rocky territory just outside the stream. And
that's exactly what we hope the development team will do with Ubuntu
during the Edgy cycle - explore slightly unfamiliar and uncharted
territory that is perhaps a little out of the mainstream. 
(...)
We can afford to take some risks with Dapper+1, because Dapper has turned
out so well. We have a great answer for people who need super-solid
and super-predictable results: Dapper is still fresh, will continue to work
on modern hardware for some time, and has plenty of legs in its support
cycle left to run.
(...)
I would encourage members of the community who have been thinking of
a cool new feature or plan to seize the opportunity to get it into Edgy.
The tradeoff, of course, will be that some of these new ideas will not
land perfectly first time. So there may be shakiness, or outright
bumpiness, in Edgy. We will for the first time possibly have to say
to new users "Edgy gets security updates etc for 18 months but seriously
consider Dapper if you need the most polished platform".'

[1]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-April/000064.html